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_Slend._ Well Nurse, if youle speake for me,
Ile giue you more than Ile talke of.

_Exit omnes but Quickly._

_Quic._ Indeed I will, Ile speake what I can for you,
But specially for M. _Fenton_:
But specially of all for my Maister. 60
And indeed I will do what I can for them all three. _Exit._

_Enter misteris Ford and her two men._

_Mis. For._ Do you heare? when your M. comes take vp this basket
as you did before, and if your M. bid you set it downe, obey
him.

_Ser._ I will forsooth. 65

_Enter Syr Iohn._

_Mis._ For. Syr _Iohn_ welcome.

_Fal._ What are you sure of your husband now?

_Mis. For._ He is gone a birding sir _Iohn_, and I hope will not
come home yet.

_Enter mistresse Page._

Gods body here is misteris _Page_, 70
Step behind the arras good sir _Iohn_.

_He steps behind the arras._

_Mis. Pa._ Misteris _Ford_, why woman your husband is in his old
vaine againe, hees comming to search for your sweet heart, but I am
glad he is not here.

_Mis. {F}or._ O God misteris _Page_ the knight is here, 75
What shall I do?

_Mis. Pa._ Why then you'r vndone woman, vnles you make some
meanes to shift him away.

_Mis. For._ Alas I know no meanes, unlesse
we put him in the basket againe. 80

_{F}al._ No Ile come no more in the basket,
Ile creep vp into the chimney.

Mis _For._ There they use to discharge their Fowling peeces.

_{F}al._ Why then Ile goe out of doores.

_Mi. Pa._ Then your vndone, your but a dead man. 85

_Fal._ For Gods sake deuise any extremitie,
Rather then a mischiefe.

_Mis. Pa._ Alas I know not what meanes to make,
If there were any womans apparell would fit him,
He might put on a gowne and a mufler, 90
And so escape.

_Mi. For._ Thats wel remembred, my maids Aunt
_Gillian_ of _Brainford_, hath a gowne aboue.

_Mis. {P}a._ And she is altogether as fat as he.

_Mis. For._ I that will serue him of my word. 95

_Mis. Pa._ Come goe with me sir _Iohn_, Ile helpe to dresse you.

_Fal._ Come for God sake, any thing.

_Exit Mis. Page and Sir Iohn._

_Enter M. Ford, {P}age, Priest, Shallow, the two men carries
the basket, and Ford meets it._

_For._ Come along _I_ pray, you shal know t